20 REPORT ON A JOURNEY FROM TUARAN TO KIAU. 
got worse and my progress slower every minute, so | sent on 
most of the men and followed at my leisure. Had a narrow 
escape from falling down a precipice, owing to a rotten 
branch breaking, of which I had hold. The outer end was 
brought up by a projecting stone and allowed me to recover 
my balance. I found my men waiting at Labong stream, 
under a overhanging cliff of conglomerate and crystal. They 
had arrived there in three hours from Tamborongah. The 
thermometer registered 64°. I felt completely crippled and 
sore all over. 
82. The thermometer fell to 61° at 6 a. m. We started/at 
g a.m. following down the Labong forsome distance. Left the 
stream where the water-falls commence and struck up the 
left bank going S. W. by W. towards the Kadamayan. 
Crossed a tiny stream, Sungei Solawkon, at 11.25 a. m., arriv- 
ed at noon at the Kadamayan and after our meal started 
down the river at a quick pace, fearing floods as the river 
was rising. Stopped again at Mitimbok gorge and finally 
arrived in Kiau at 6 p. m. putting up at BUNAHOW’S house. 
83. Here LIMBAWAN, my guide, informed me through 
GAWANG, that he had brought down Messrs. Low and ST. 
JOHN’S papers; the former’s in a bottle and the latter’s in a 
tin. | felt vexed at his having deceived me, but said nothing 
and exchanged another bottle for the one in question. From 
the tin, a small cocoa or chocolate and milk one, I withdrew 
a piece of the Overland Mazl dated January gth, 1858, which 
contained a page torn from a pocket diary on which was 
written in pencil: the peak here with the 
bottle SPENSER ST. JOHN. 
April 30th, 1858. 
84. In the bottle, probably an old Bass’ beer bottle, I 
found fragments of Zhe Agricultural Gazette and The 
Gardener’s Chronicle, but the dated side is missing; also 
a pencil memo. with the words: Govern (ment) (La) buan 
do 5 Bar (ometer) was still distinguishable. Mr. Low 
(now Sir H. Low) made the ascent of Kinabalu in 1851; so, 
I suppose, both bottle and papers must be over thirty-six _ 
years old and have successfully withstood gales, rains and 
mists during that at time. 
